Slow progress

I have been making slow progress on preparations and planning since I wrote that "Travel plans" piece two months ago. The timetable remains more or less the same. It may slip however.

With respect to blogging etc., rather than trying to set up a new site in order to build a bigger audience I have decided – for the time being at least – to consolidate. I intend to post more frequently here and (identical material) at my WordPress site, adopting a more informal approach. Shorter pieces.

My association with Daniel Kaufman and his Electric Agora will probably continue though I have no new essays in the pipeline. With respect to my EA-based podcast, Culture and Value, eight episodes are currently available. They have attracted some attention (and so far about 4000 listens/downloads in toto). But I am not adding new episodes at the moment. (This is for various reasons – including the fact that the podcast has yet to be made available on Apple Podcasts.)

A podcast called Culture and Value

I haven’t been posting here lately, mainly because I have been spending the time I would normally devote to writing posts for The Electric Agora (most of which find their way to this site in modified form) trying to develop a podcast for the EA network of podcasts. Things have gone slowly largely because of technical and procedural problems but a very brief introductory episode of the podcast and the first substantive episode (a brief memoir entitled “Chinese General’s Daughter”) are now available. You can find the show, called Culture and Value, at theelectricagora.com, the Electric Agora YouTube channel, and on the following audio streaming services: Castos, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Amazon/Audible, Pocket Casts and Spotify.

The show is very much a work in progress and may or may not continue in its present form. I like doing it, but obviously there will be no point if I can’t sustain an audience. We’ll see how it goes.

I intend to use Twitter to signal new episodes (@mark_english1), but I may also post summaries and links here at Conservative Tendency.